While Time Remains: A North Korean Defector's Search for Freedom in America

by Yeonmi Park

When a people become untethered from history, when they become unshackled from reality, when they lose the ability to understand cause and effect, they become ripe for exploitation from those who hold real power.

Ronald Reagan said it best: “Freedom is a fragile thing and it’s never more than one generation away from extinction. It is not ours by way of inheritance, it must be fought for and defended constantly by each generation, for it comes only once to a people. And those in world history who have known freedom and then lost it have never known it again.”